Monday, September 13, 2010

The Non-Terrytoons Jim Tyer Style

Boy, they weren't kidding.I like this other drawing style Tyer used in his early comics.It'd sure be interesting to know how he came up with it.Looks sort of like a combination of Milt Gross and Dr. Seuss.The first couple Terrytoons he animated on look sort of like this. There's a Mighty Mouse story that takes place at a circus that has unbelievably cool detailed animation by Jim Tyer. -about 1947.http://comicrazys.com/2010/09/12/skeeter-skunk-jim-tyer/

BTW, for those digitally archiving comics, be __very__ careful about using compression! Those video algorithms used for (and which can ruin) DVD's are nearly identical to JPEG compression, which, if turned up, will tile/wipe out small details and jag up/eat into the lines. For the technically inclined, do a lossless save of your fave art, then a compressed save, and use difference mode in Photoshop or equivalent paint program to compare lossless .vs. your compression choice. That way you can see what's going away with compression.